FILMS FROM WAR ZONE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 200, 7 January 1942, Page 3

FILMS FROM WAR ZONE

£1,000,000 PROGRAMME ON ITS WAY So keen is the demand abroad for war films made on the spot that British film producers have put in hand a £1,000,000 production programme, and a stream of films: short

and long is flowing across the Atlantic to the United States and Latin America. Among other plans for keeping up the output of British films, now threatened by service calls on stars, technicians and studio space, is a "pooling" scheme, to allow all these facilities to be shared out among the ■Carious producers. Moreover, the leading American film companies. hope to make films in Britain with their own technicians, and so "unfreeze" the credit, worth about £5,000,000, they have built up there i from film booking receipts. : Films now being shown or on their : way overseas include "The Big Block - ade," part fictional and part docu- ■ mentary; "Ships With Wings," about Britain's Fleet Air Arm; "49th Par-* I allel," the adventures of a Nazi subi marine crew fighting its way across i Canada; topical Will Hay comedies I like "The Black Sheep of White- - hall" and "The Goose Steps Out"; - Tommy Trinder in "The Foreman i Went to France" "London is Burn--3 ing" showjjig the world's largest > city in flames; and, greatest of all, "Target for To-night," the film shoAV- ; ing real-life airmen and planes exe- : cuting a raid on Germany. A large ! number of shorts are also on their > way. 1 ____________